{{Short description|Uranyl phosphate mineral}} {{Infobox mineral | name = Phosphuranylite | boxwidth = | boxbgcolor = | image = Makro_Phosphuranylite.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Phosphuranylite from South Alligator River, Northern Territory, Australia (10 mm field of view) | category = Phosphate minerals | formula = KCa(H<sub>3</sub>O)<sub>3</sub>(UO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>7</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>4</sub>O<sub>4</sub>·8(H<sub>2</sub>O) | IMAsymbol = Puy<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warr|first=L.N.|date=2021|title=IMA–CNMNC approved mineral symbols|journal=Mineralogical Magazine|volume=85|issue=3 |pages=291–320|doi=10.1180/mgm.2021.43 |bibcode=2021MinM...85..291W |s2cid=235729616 |doi-access=free}}</ref> | molweight = | strunz = 8.EC.10 | dana = | system = Orthorhombic | class = Dipyramidal (mmm) <br/>H-M symbol: (2/m 2/m 2/m) | symmetry = ''Cmcm'' | unit cell = | color = | colour = | habit = | twinning = | cleavage = | fracture = | tenacity = | mohs = | luster = | streak = | diaphaneity = | gravity = | density = | polish = | opticalprop = | refractive = | birefringence = | pleochroism = | 2V = | dispersion = | extinction = | length fast/slow = | fluorescence = | absorption = | melt = | fusibility = | diagnostic = | solubility = | impurities = | alteration = | other = 25px Radioactive | prop1 = | prop1text = | references = <ref>[https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/MineralData?mineral=Phosphuranylite Mineralienatlas]</ref><ref name=Mindat>[http://www.mindat.org/min-3182.html Phosphuranylite at Mindat.org]</ref><ref name=Webmin>[http://www.webmineral.com/data/Phosphuranylite.shtml Webmineral data]</ref><ref name=HBM>[http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/phosphuranylite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy]</ref> }} '''Phosphuranylite''' is a uranyl phosphate mineral with formula KCa(H<sub>3</sub>O)<sub>3</sub>(UO<sub>2</sub>)<sub>7</sub>(PO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>4</sub>O<sub>4</sub>·8(H<sub>2</sub>O).<ref name=Mindat/><ref name=Webmin/><ref name=HBM/>
It was first described in 1879 by Frederick Augustus Genth, from an occurrence in the Flat Rock pegmatite in Mitchell County, North Carolina, US.<ref name=Webmin/>
==References== {{commons category|Phosphuranylite}} {{reflist}}
Category:Potassium minerals Category:Calcium minerals Category:Phosphate minerals Category:Uranium(VI) minerals Category:Octahydrate minerals Category:Orthorhombic minerals Category:Minerals in space group 63 Category:Minerals described in 1879
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